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One way to try and ensure that your data stays private is to request that your Facebook account be deleted, but that doesn't necessarily protect information you have already supplied.

Many users are willing to trade off the risk of supplying their data for the convenience of staying connected to friends and others on the social network.
So what can you do to protect your data if you want to stay on Facebook?

To begin, visit the settings area of Facebook found via the drop-down arrow in the top right-hand corner of your profile page on the desktop version of the site.
Then click on the apps tab on the left of the page and click 'show all' at the bottom, then you can see, edit, and remove all the apps you've 'consented' to track your account.
Now, a likely vast list of all apps that can access and view your own personal data will be revealed.


To edit or remove these apps from your list of permitted platforms, simply hover the mouse over one of the options.
Clicking the pencil icon will bring up the edit options and clicking the 'X' will bring up the option to remove it.
For each app that has access to the data, users can go in and customise what permissions are granted to each app.

For example, many apps use friends list information, profile information and sometimes even work and educational history.
Most will already know your email and have access to any information on your profile.
To restrict access, there is a blue tick option on the right-hand side of different permissions such as email, profile picture, education etc
.
Apps can make some permissions compulsory and these cannot be unchecked and appear as a faded out blue.
If this makes you uncomfortable then the only way to restrict this data reaching that specific company is to click the 'X' and remove the app.
Users can make a judgement call on the optional pieces of information too and customise the data that is shared.

To change the data permissions for all of the apps is time consuming, but it is the only way to gain control over the free distribution of personal data.

By scrolling further down the Settings>Apps window there are other options to further customise who can view personal data.

At this point, it is important to remember that all previous apps were, at some point, granted permission by the user to access their data.
Under the 'Apps Others Use' tab, this gets taken out of the user's hands.
Here, it shows all the data available for Facebook friends to see.
Whilst there may be no issue with this being shared with friends and acquaintances on the social media platform, that data is also being seen by the apps your friends use.
These will include apps that a user did not individually grant permission to.
Here, a checklist of options will appear when selected, and users can customise and restrict what non-authorised third-party apps can view.
 

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Don't supply information - Easy.

What did people think. Facebook is free for a reason. Information is sold. Targeted ads in your face.

I see lemmings scrolling facebook every day all day, while looking miserable. Waste of time.
 
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young people move to snapchat for me its good to remember what good, bad friends you had.
 
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You can hide ad's, but they will have all the information they need, and sell it. Every click is logged.
 
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best way to stop facebook from further using your data is to get permanent banned. Thats what I did 10+ years ago, having regretted it since. :D
 
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I deleted Facebook about 11 months ago, haven't missed a shred of it. Always found it to be largely for narcissists and people who want to hear their own opinion echoed back at them.
 
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These are some good pointers that I was not aware of.
If it wasn't for the groups I'm in I would have left years ago, and because a lot of people have an account I don't see a simpler (for everyday layman) way to connect to others.
 

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Some good points/indicators for people "TRYING TO MAINTAIN SOME PRIVACY" on facebook
Problem is its Designed by default to SUCK info if not from you FROM YOUR CONTACTS.
I also wonder if these setting will withstand the Facebook Refresh
Many People in the past have made the effort to use what settings Facebook provide to
restrict their infomation only for facebook to change something and suddenly Information that was restricted
such as designated family only is suddenly made viewable to every one

SAD TO SAY BUT IF YOU USE FACEBOOK YOU MUST BE VIGILANTE ABOUT PERMISSIONS AND YOUR SECURITY
 

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Deleting your account may not be enough to keep Facebook - and its tens of millions of advertisers - from tracking you across the web.
Facebook uses an advertising strategy called the 'Facebook Audience Network' to promote ads targeted to your browsing tastes.
It means brands can serve up marketing messages based on your interests even when you're not on the site, via third party apps and mobile websites.
The service was introduced in 2014,
 
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It is Google, Facebook or the NSA. They ALL harvest your data. If you want to be clean then go live off the grid. Otherwise it is unavoidable.
 
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Targeted ads in your face.
Adblockers ftw!

I just went through. Didnt have much. But under ads, holy shit! Advertisers ive never heard of or seen. Im going to have to do it on a desktop to get rid of those. Will take too much time if not a day or two to get rid of them all.
 
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This topic reminds me of a scene from one of my more favorite shows - Person of Interest:

Harold Finch: Hester's living off the grid - no photos online and nothing on the social networking sites.

John Reese: I never understood why people put all their information on those sites. Used to make our job a lot easier at the CIA.

Harold Finch: Of course. That's why I created them.

John Reese: You're telling me you invented online social networking, Finch?

Harold Finch: The Machine needed more information. People's social graph, their associations. The government had been trying to figure it out for years. Turns out most people were happy to volunteer it. Business wound up being quite profitable, too.

I personally never understood why people want to post so much information for others to find out about. Are so many people that vain? I dislike the fact my wife has images of me on her FB page and pictures of our kids. I've yelled at her about it, but she still posts that stuff.....god, I hate facebook.
 

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I deleted Facebook about 11 months ago, haven't missed a shred of it. Always found it to be largely for narcissists and people who want to hear their own opinion echoed back at them.

Deleted mine in 2012, I was part of the .edu email only crowd when facebook was newish... making the transition from that to when it went for anyone could use it ruined it for me... used to flirt with girls in glass, then after public, my Aunt and Grandma had posts on my wall, I was like aight mates, I'm out have a good life. lulz
 
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Deleting your account may not be enough to keep Facebook - and its tens of millions of advertisers - from tracking you across the web.
Facebook uses an advertising strategy called the 'Facebook Audience Network' to promote ads targeted to your browsing tastes.
It means brands can serve up marketing messages based on your interests even when you're not on the site, via third party apps and mobile websites.
The service was introduced in 2014,

Ghostery, Privacy Badger and Disconnect should help. As well as AdBlock filters of which some specifically target Facebook (like Fanboy's Anti-Facebook filter).
 

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I don't do any social media, probably because I am not sociable apart from around 20 old friends that I keep in regular touch with so I still do things the old skool way, call, text or e mail.
 
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And don't forget LinkedIn, WhatsApp etc etc....
 
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Hmmm Facebook tracks you even if you don't have a facebook account so good luck in getting away from them the only way is to go dark and never be online
 
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adblockers do nothing for you when it comes to collecting information. :banghead:
 
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adblockers do nothing for you when it comes to collecting information. :banghead:

That's not true. Privacy focused lists target web elements like beacons, pixels and plugins from these data hoarding corporations. If theys don't load, they don't track the content. Same goes for cookies. Most browsers have "block 3rd party cookies". Use that. It'll block everything that doesn't belong to a domain you're actually visiting.

I just wish browsers had integrated, more advanced tools to create rules for filtering of cookies. Opera is by far the most sophisticated in this regard and it even syncs the rules between connected browsers.
 
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That's not true. Privacy focused lists target web elements like beacons, pixels and plugins from these data hoarding corporations. If theys don't load, they don't track the content. Same goes for cookies. Most browsers have "block 3rd party cookies". Use that. It'll block everything that doesn't belong to a domain you're actually visiting.

I just wish browsers had integrated, more advanced tools to create rules for filtering of cookies. Opera is by far the most sophisticated in this regard and it even syncs the rules between connected browsers.
it is true, because you have some data that is collected whether you block ads or not. I do agree that Opera is better than most in this regard, but any properly configured and tweaked browser can perform just as well as Opera.
 
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I don't get people. Just don't supply your data. Facebook is not forcing you to give them private info. People like doing job, college, home, birthday, etc, etc but you don't HAVE to put that in.
 
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This topic reminds me of a scene from one of my more favorite shows - Person of Interest:

Harold Finch: Hester's living off the grid - no photos online and nothing on the social networking sites.

John Reese: I never understood why people put all their information on those sites. Used to make our job a lot easier at the CIA.

Harold Finch: Of course. That's why I created them.

John Reese: You're telling me you invented online social networking, Finch?

Harold Finch: The Machine needed more information. People's social graph, their associations. The government had been trying to figure it out for years. Turns out most people were happy to volunteer it. Business wound up being quite profitable, too.

I personally never understood why people want to post so much information for others to find out about. Are so many people that vain? I dislike the fact my wife has images of me on her FB page and pictures of our kids. I've yelled at her about it, but she still posts that stuff.....god, I hate facebook.

I am a lucky man I guess, my girl has a strong distaste for social media and so do I. Only reason I had FB at some point was for promoting my own DJ sets and gigs. Its free advertising.

There's a little one coming now (around august this year), and this whole internet/social media thing is going to be a really interesting thing to watch in terms of parenting. I do know this: I will severely limit it.
 
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